This forum is a place where people can post ideas they have had for the game. It could be anything related to Wesnoth. From a cool new type of add-on, to a small improvement to the help menu, to a new Wesnoth-related Web application. When you have an idea, but no work (yet), this is the place.

I bolded the text. Anyways, it seems that this means something different than how I read it. Quoting from another thread,

If, by “additions to the game” it means additions or changes to a certain fork of the project and not to anything else, then might I recommend you guys change that Read This post to make it more clear?

(snip)

The [MUST-READ] thread says:

This category is for “User Made Content”. These topics would be used for suggesting things for add-on creators.

ie: suggestions for improving Wesnoth for UMC authors. Not to post ideas for your particular add-on.

I can see how there is room for ambiguity. So, it seems to me that either

that document is inconsistent
it needs revised

the phrasing is foggy
should be revised or augmented

both are permissible
could be revised to clarify that

It would make sense that permitting ideas for any sundry add–ons would very much clutter it, so the middle possibility is most likely.

The description of the UMC tag for threads hinges on how you read that line in the preamble. The one which says

a cool new type of add-on,

See, the troublesome word there is “type”. Does this mean a technical class — à la the difference between [campaign] and [modification], — or does it mean a genre?

Of course, the topic which prompted me to wonder this wasn't even an add–on, but a new name for my own forthcoming fork of the source — which is, understandably, too far from the criteria of the Ideas board and was more–or–less rightfully moved to another board.

Pardon me for making such a fuss about it. Probably there are very few new topics which do occur as a result of similar interpretation — even from those who read the rules as I did.

As for that, maybe we could allow posting of rough outlines or plots, with no work yet done or planned, to the suitable __ Development board. Of course, maybe there are some there now: I did not search the boards to see if there are any already. I did see one or two LFW–ish threads.

Probably should require that any such thread

begin with at least a modicum of detail more than simply
“Wouldn't it be fun to have a faction of pacifists?”
or the like.